Chapter 25 Orion Project

After a period of digestion, everyone heard and understood the amazing and happy news. The people here are all elites, more or less scientifically literate, and after figuring it out bit by bit, a kind of ecstasy surged out from deep inside, like a monstrous flood, directly unable to control their emotions.

"Ah! Ah!"

"Bang!" "Pop!"

The venue was filled with people shouting like venting and slapping the table, many people cried for joy, buried their heads and cried bitterly, some people simply embraced two by two, regardless of whether they knew each other or not, the stimulation of these few hours was really too big and too big for them, but suddenly came a divine turn, from hell to heaven, the excitement in their hearts could be imagined.

After about half an hour, the venue slowly calmed down.

Now there is still a problem that has not been solved, that is, how to push the 1,038,600 tons of spacecraft!

The most powerful "Saturn 5 rocket" of human once, its propulsion power is about 3500 tons, with the progress of technology, the current "Atlantis" ship aboard the rocket propulsion power reached 5000 tons, but compared to 1,038,600 tons is still far from But it is still too much worse than 1,038,600 tons.

With the existing productivity of human beings, it is impossible to build hundreds or thousands of rockets in six months. What to do?

Of course, such a small difficulty could not be difficult for human beings. The mad scientists have already figured out how to solve this problem, that is, the most powerful force under human control - the nuclear bomb!

This crazy idea is not a temporary idea of scientists, it has appeared as early as the 1960s, known as - "Orion Project"!

The U.S. government's "Orion Project" was first launched in 1958, when it was the early days of the Cold War, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union had just begun to fight for space supremacy, and it was in this context that the "Orion Project" was launched.

Scientists planned to build a huge spacecraft like an ocean liner - "Orion", and thousands of small nuclear bombs for power, the ship can carry at least 40 astronauts to Mars, Jupiter or Saturn.

According to the plan, "Orion" spacecraft only 125 days to Mars and back, the spacecraft can carry 100 tons of equipment and food, if replaced by a conventional rocket-propelled spacecraft, this is simply impossible.

However, the Orion Project has one of the biggest problems is nuclear pollution, the waste generated after the explosion of nuclear bombs, thousands of years will not disappear, can not be put because of a spaceship to the entire Earth's atmosphere pollution, right? Therefore, "Orion Project" was eventually aborted.

But to the present, but no such problem, now the human race is about to leave the moon, and what he does not care about pollution. People also have a more ambitious determination to push a super giant, megaton spacecraft!

When Felix reached the end of his speech, he took out a document from his desk and handed it to Oliver, who looked at it and was shocked to see that it was the preliminary plan for the "nuclear propulsion program", which he read and then passed to the others.

"Look, this is the preliminary plan that more than 20 of us have discussed." Felix said.

"First of all, the first problem of the Orion program is the safety issue. This problem hardly needs to be considered, because our ship is strong enough. For thirty years, scientists have done anything, and I stress, anything, to it, including nuclear testing! But there is simply no way to damage it one iota. So, I think the ship is very safe."

"Secondly, there is the issue of acceleration. The huge acceleration caused by a nuclear explosion can instantly crush a person into a meat pie. But this is not a problem ... the interior of the ship is self-contained space, since the mass can not be expressed from the inside to the outside, there is no way for the force from the outside to be transmitted to the inside."

"How to say it ..." Felix thought about it, "the ship has the same speed when we don't feel anything while accelerating, which seems very amazing and violates the laws of physics. It could be that the whole of space is in motion and we are stationary relative to space ... Alas, the science now cannot explain exactly why, and that is the truth anyway."

"Finally, there's the technical problem."

"According to the Orion plan, we are going to let the spacecraft carry a large number of nuclear bombs, and when the ship needs power, release one from the stern, followed by some solid discs made of hydrogen-containing plastic. When the ship travels a certain distance, the nukes will explode behind the ship, vaporizing the plastic discs and converting them into a highly heated plasma plasma, which will then in turn propel the ship ..."

Felix rattled off his speech, the frenzy in his eyes was getting higher and higher, and the people below, regardless of whether they could hear or not, shook their heads and listened along, believing that this guy was talking serious business.

The more complicated he said, the more people believed.

There are nukes in the base, and not many of them, just three in total. If people want to carry out this plan, they have to produce nuclear bombs in large quantities to do so.

The atomic bombs are too much trouble to manufacture, they have to use a lot of centrifuges to purify the enriched uranium-235, which is time-consuming and energy-consuming.

Hydrogen bombs are much less complicated, there is enough deuterium {D} and tritium {t}, and then use the atomic bomb ignition on the line. To put it bluntly, the atomic bomb in front of the hydrogen bomb, is a gatekeeper. But there are only three atomic bombs in the base, ah, that's not a big deal.

"So, we don't have enough atomic bombs?" Oliver asked.

"Yes, our centrifuges can only sort out industrial-grade uranium, so we have to make a new batch specially, at least five or six thousand units. The second point is that the centrifuges need a lot of electricity to work, so we need to apply for a larger amount of electricity." An engineer said so.

"Either there is another option, which is to dismantle the original atomic bombs in the base to make them even smaller. I think this option is better"

"And ah, Mr. Yu, the tritium needed to make the hydrogen bomb is very costly, and it needs to bombard the lithium 6 compound with a neutron stream, and then use the thermal diffusion method, which requires electricity that is not covered ..."

"Also, we still have to design chemical rocket engines, the purpose is not to propel, but to fine-tune the direction of the ship, how to say propulsion also has to be tons of level, right ... hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel to be right?"

Listen to understand, this is to electricity, to energy to come ... headache ah, Oliver touched his head, he quickly calculated, really headache, this also need electricity, that also need electricity, where to so much electricity?

The base is now a large number of industries that need electricity ah, now the power plant are almost full capacity ah.

But he also knows that a clever woman can not cook without rice, these people are also forced to ask themselves for electricity, can not let people with a sickle hammer, hard to smash a nuclear bomb out.

"Transformation of the entire airship, this amount of work would also be somewhat large, but also to strengthen the metal smelting, cement is also essential ..."

"The inside of the ship does not count as mass, but the outside mounted instruments are to be counted as mass, so it is best to use lighter titanium aluminum alloy to be right ..."

The crowd was full of hope and talking, and Oliver felt like he was being driven crazy. This is also lacking, that is also lacking, and then large-scale development of power stations has not quite suitable, and then how fast it will take five or six months, right, by then the yellow flowers are cold.

He turned his eyes to think, in fact, the agricultural transformation program and the space program is basically compatible, many things in the agricultural transformation program has been included, as long as a slight change is good. Three months later, when the agricultural transformation program is completed, another large amount of power will be freed up.

"And ah, Captain Oliver, we have to move supplies on a large scale, not counting the weight anyway, the more the merrier, the more about the better. When you go to space, you can't have too much stuff."

"Which planet are we going to, Titan, Io, or Mars?"

Some people even eyes flashing fantasy of interstellar voyage. This is a real interstellar voyage! Something that has never been achieved before is about to somehow come true in the hands of the last 50,000 humans... what a world!

"Stop!" Oliver slapped the table violently, he felt his head was a bit confused, "Discuss yourselves first, find some realistic options, don't say everything to me."

"We need to develop an outline first, the detailed plan as well as the technical points can be left for later. The situation in the base you know, what electricity ah water ah are lacking, save some, must be realistic!"

The words just finished, Oliver ran to the toilet in a flash, he took a long breath, lit a cigarette, and smoked hard. This is the last few cigarettes, smoke one less one ah ... he scratched his head, suddenly found his hair fell out a few.

He is a super human ah! I can't believe that I can lose my hair, so I can see that this position is really stressful ...